“Today I am talking to Emily Allbon, law Librarian at City University and the editor of the excellent Lawbore resource website. Research skills lie at the root of all legal work, whether in academe or practice, so we are going to look at the skills needed and resources available to law students and lawyers in the modern era. We may even have time to look at the value of legal blogging and social media for younger lawyers and not so young lawyers.”

“The latest annual statistical report from The Law Society has confirmed the extent to which law firms have so far failed to react to the increase in women in the profession, with the number of female solicitors nearly doubling over the last 10 years.”

“The use of ‘yellow pages’ in the domain http://www.transport-yellow-pages.com breached trade mark regulations, a court has ruled. A person finding the website in the UK could think it belonged to Yell, the England and Wales Patent County Court said.”

“An offence of inflicting grevious bodily harm, contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, was a ‘crime of violence’ for the purposes of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2001.”

“A person who made customs declarations in his own name and on his own behalf could not rely on a binding tariff information of which he was not the holder, but which associated company on whose instructions he made those declarations. A person could, however, in proceedings relating to the imposition of customs duties, challenge the imposition of duties by submitting as evidence a binding tariff information issued in another member state.”